Improvement in horse-collars and hames



A. DUNBARB Improvement in Horse-Coilarand Hamas.

No, 119,585, Pamted om. s, :an

UNITED STATES PATENT CFEICE.

ALEXANDER DUNBAR, OF WOODSTOGK, CANADA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-COLLARS AND HAMES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,585, dated October3, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALExANDEE DUNEAE, of Woodstock, in the Province ofOntario and Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and ImprovedCombined Horse-Collar and Haines; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which willenable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing forming part of thisspecification.

Figure l represents a back view of my iinproved horse-collar and haines.Fig.2'is a transverse section on an enlarged scale, the line c c, Fig.l, indicating the plane of section. Fig. 3 is face view oftheskeleton-frame used thereon.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new construction of horsecollar and haines,and has for its object to make the same lighter and less expensive. Itconsists principally in the use of a wire frame, which sustains thevcovering and padding' and constitutes an elastic, durable, and reliablesupport for all the parts of a collar. The invention consists, also, ina new manner of applying the draft-hook to the front of the collar.

A in the drawing represents the frame of the collar. It is made of onecontinuous wire, bent so as to forni a skeleton for the support of thepadding and cover and connect the sides of the collar beneath, at a. Atthe sides of the collar the wire is bent to form the edges and laid overthe top. At the connection a, however, the two thicknesses of wire arebrought close together,

as is clearly shown in Fig. 3, and form a strong spring connection forthe parts of the collar. Wooden plates B, grooved at the edges, are ttedinto the sides of the skeletonframes, between the upright wires b and dofthe same, and held in place by the wires entering the grooved edges,as in Fig. 2. These boards extend up and down only far enough to backthe padding C, which is put against them, and then covered by leather Dor other material. I prefer to make the padding, as shown in Fig. 2,-ofan inner layer of hay or straw, c, covered by canvas f, and an outerlayer of hair, g, between f and D. E E are the draft-hooks. They are,before the covering is applied, laid over the outer faces of or throughthe boards B and hooked over the wires in front at b. Suitable buttonsh, or other trace fasteners, are formed at the outer ends of thesedrafthooks. By hooking them over the front of the collar apowerful'leverage is obtained, and a full support to the boards B, towhich these hooks may be fastened in any suitable manner.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl. The skeleton horse-collar frame, formed of acontinuous wire and covered and padded, substantially as herein shownand described.

2. The draft-hooks E, fitted over the front wire of the collar andapplied against the boards G, substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

- ALEXR. DUNBAR.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. MABEE, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. (46)

